"[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."

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• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.965
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• You will come to feel that by refusing to entertain a simple hypothesis that explains everything - sensitivity as a property common to all matter or as a result of the organization of matter - you are flying in the face of common sense and plunging into a chasm of mysteries, contradictions and absurdities.quote0.807
  Diderot's argument for the simplicity and rationality of a living-matter hypothesis over the mechanistic dead-matter view.
• What features of each theory specifically pick out brains as a privileged substrate of inner perspective, or do the features emphasized by the theory occur elsewhere?question0.804
  The central research question that drives the paper's analysis.
• All that is required is that this mechanical procedure is sensitive to the whole and is influenced by and guided by the structure of the whole. That is the secret of morphological emergence in natural phenomena.quote0.803
  Load-bearing statement asserting that sensitivity to the whole is the essential requirement for generating novel living structure.
• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.802
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
• Perception is a form of action; perception and action cannot be pulled apartclaim0.801
  Enactive consequence: active sampling of world means perception inherently involves action
• The feeling of a material does not depend on what it is—it depends on how it is handled.claim0.800
  Assertion that even concrete can have the feeling of precious materials through process.
• If someone develops clear enough introspection, they will eventually conclude that thought is rendered as subtle perturbations in phenomenal fields.hypothesis0.799
  Cube Flipper's prediction about convergence of insight practice on field model.